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heard. The emotional power of the “Requiem for Mozart” story is considerable, suggesting as<br />

it does that some of the composer’s colleagues organised the copying, rehearsal and<br />

performance of a work out of respect for its recently deceased creator. If the story is true, it is<br />

somehow appropriate that the very first commemorative act for Mozart should take place<br />

during the performance of a work deemed a “masterpiece” by Michael Haydn and a<br />

“miracle” by Albrechtsberger – but most importantly, a work in Mozart’s “favourite form of<br />

composition.” 218<br />

218 Pfannhauser, “Epilegomena Mozartiana,” 294, Dwight C. Blazin, “Michael Haydn and the 'Haydn<br />

Tradition': A Study of Attribution, Chronology, and Source Transmission” (PhD diss., New York University,<br />

2004), 43, Franz Xaver Niemetschek, Lebensbeschreibung des K. K. Kapellmeisters Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, aus<br />

Originalquellen, Second ed. (Prague: Herrlischen Buchhandlung, 1808; reprint, Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag<br />

für Musik, 1978), 117.<br />

415

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